In December 2013 Bryan Singer on his page in the "Twitter" social network has announced that the premiere of "Apocalypse" will be held in 2016. The script was written himself Singer, Simon Kinberg, and Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, who worked on "X-Men 2".

McAvoy, Fassbender, Holt, Laurence Byrne, Thill and Peters confirmed that they would return to their roles. The role of the Apocalypse in November 2014 went to Oscar Isaac. In January 2015, the role of the young Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm got Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner and Alexandra Shipp. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn and Lana Condor soon got the role of Kurt Wagner, Angel, Psylocke and Jubilee. In May, Singer announced that the mutant Caliban will appear in the film.

The film will take place in 1980. X-Men will confront one of the most powerful mutants on Earth - the Apocalypse, which was shown in a scene after the credits in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Events "Days of Future Past" had a tremendous impact on the world where mutants and people are fighting for their place under the sun. In this difficult time of the X-Men to face with his most dangerous enemy - the ancient mutant Apocalypse, a creature which could be the last fight not only for the mutants, but also, in principle, for all mankind. Finding a way to win over the invincible and immortal monster X-Men to learn more about the origin of the species. But the Apocalypse is incredibly strong, and the probability of winning all the decreases, because he was firmly convinced that only the strong have the right to survival ...